School-wide recycling is back underway!

Tyler personalizes a box before it is sent out to a classroom.

August 24, 2009 by Sara Walsh

The Environmental science class is jumping right into the new school year by kick-starting the school-wide recycling efforts! They have been busy painting new recycling and reusing boxes for classrooms to replace worn out or missing boxes. They have also been writing up details for a new plan to take care of the recycling duties. The new plan will involve more students throughout the high school and will be done on a more regular basis. The class has also been brainstorming ways to make plastic recycling at lunch more feasible for the school. To finish off our efforts to "Go Green!" the class will research composting and biodegrading processes using red wiggler worms and hope to build a small worm farm with which they can study the process.

Saving trash from landfills like this one near Jackson, NE is our goal. It's estimated that 40-50% of waste thrown in landfills can be recycled. This landfill takes in 900,000 lbs of trash per DAY. There is a lot of room for more recycling!

Thank you to everyone who continued to use the GreenFiber bins over the summer. In June we collected more recyclable cellulose products (1.68 tons) than in any month since we received the GreenFiber bins last October. To date, we have saved 12.12 TONS of paper products from sent to the landfill. This has earned us around $250 to be put towards further Green projects.

Ryan paints to let everyone know which boxes contain recyclable materials.